Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-07
IN-BREEDlNG.

IN ule article Oh - lll-BreeulnS pun
lished in our last, which suggests much
that is valuable, we notice that it is stated:
ga son of imported Messenger was bred
to some unknown mare. and the result
was Amazonia." Mr.. Parlin knows as
well as we that nobody knows what was
the sire of Amazonia. Nobody has ever
pretended to know who bred her. She
was bought in Philadelphia, and one
man has said that the party who bought
her said that the boy who sold her said
that she was by son of imported Mes
senger. The man who says this adds
that no one interested in the mare ever
believed the story.
If Mr.. Parin thinks it wise to instruct
people who are entirely ignorant of the
facts, in this way, that is his matter, but
as we have copied the article we feel
called upon to caution our readers on
this part of it. Also it is said: From
a mare known as Black jim, Messenger
produced daughter called Silvertail."
This is question of doubt, though prob
ably ii was all in the family. One of the
Seely boys said Black jim was bred to
son of Messenger; his brother claimed
she was bred to Messenger. As Mr.. Par
lin himself calls attention to his render
ing of the dam of Goldsmith Maid, we
pass that by. There never was a scintilla
of evidence that this was as given in Wal
ha hn, fnl
giving advice about breeding or anything
else, from unknown facts. is so evident
that it seems astonishing there should be
constant cause to speak of it.
The breeding of both Top Gallant and
Whalebone are very mythical. Again
this article states "Harold is by Rysdyk's
Hambletonian, son of Abdalah; dam
Enchantress, a daughter of Abdallah."
There is nothing and there never was
anything known to the public about the
breeding of Enchantress that is in any
way reliable.
A Mr. John Wilson, lumberman, of
Ohio, getting out of health, bought IA
stock farm and came East to buy stall
lion of Mr.. Rysdyk, priced at $4,000. He
did not buy this, but bought another got
by Cassius M. Clay, and also bought at a
livery stable in Brooklyn or Flatbush
this mare Ehchantress, and as he wanted
her for stock farm they gave him ped-
gree made to order, i. e., exactly the
pedigree of Rysdyks Hambletonian, by
A hxr al l.
could hardly have expected them to do
better than this. They probably con-
sidered it the best there was. Soon
after, for what reason it is not stated,
Herald for sale, and he sold her to Chica-
go, we believe to Mr.. Dole, and passed
over the same certificate that he got from
the liyeryman.
first volume of his magazine, that some
other party afterwards looked this matter
up and found that the part of the pedi-
gree that Mr.. Wallace fancied was cor
rect, and that the part which he did not,
was false. If Mr.. Parlin believes this,
all right; we don't, but we will leave the
subject until another time, when we ex-
pect to be able to place before the public
some very important testimony upon En-
chantress, the dam of Harold,
So, too, as to Engineer. We have got
information of the town he came from
when he went to Long Island. As soon
as we can see the time we intend to visit
that town, and expect from some very
old inhabtant, or an advertisement, to
learn his pedigree. OF course he was
not got by Messenger. Messenger didn't
get that kind of horse. One can guess
his way pretty straight in this pedigree
hunting. We were satisfied that the dam
OF Ethan Allen was not got by Messenger
horse and we proved it. We were salts
fled that the trim-built dam of Hotspur
was not got by any Hambletonian horse,
whether Abdallah or True John, both of
which Mr.. Wallace has given as her sire.
We have the proof that she was got by
Green Mountain Morgan. We were sat
isfied that the handsome dam of the great
ten-mile trotter John Stewart was not by
Harris Hambletonian. as given by Mr..
Wallace. We have the proof that she